Fascinating.
I plugged - goo.gle/timelapse - into my browser address bar, and once the page loaded up, I navigated to the area I grew up in. It only had data between 1984 and 2020 for that area, so I did a screencap of every one of those years and then trimmed the screencaps to just the map area and stepped through them.
It was remarkable to watch how over that 35 years, year over year, Mother Nature took back what had always been hers. "Global warming" has spurred an explosion of life and biodiversity there.
What was once pastureland when I was growing up that Black Angus cattle were run on is now a vast cedar forest. The old original growth hardwood forest that had been confined to slopes on the mountain too steep to clear has spread out from it's center in those 35 years and retaken lands until it butted into the cedar forest.
All hail global warming, because it proves that in the end, the wild will win - so long as we can manage to keep the temperatures up in the current range or higher to give life a fighting chance.
1984:
![[Image: attachment.php?aid=11356]](http://rogue-nation3.com/attachment.php?aid=11356)
2020:
![[Image: attachment.php?aid=11357]](http://rogue-nation3.com/attachment.php?aid=11357)
The brownish-green is cedar forest, and the dark green is hardwood forest.
And, finally, a GIF flashing between the two to show the gains Mother nature has made:
![[Image: attachment.php?aid=11358]](http://rogue-nation3.com/attachment.php?aid=11358)
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I plugged - goo.gle/timelapse - into my browser address bar, and once the page loaded up, I navigated to the area I grew up in. It only had data between 1984 and 2020 for that area, so I did a screencap of every one of those years and then trimmed the screencaps to just the map area and stepped through them.
It was remarkable to watch how over that 35 years, year over year, Mother Nature took back what had always been hers. "Global warming" has spurred an explosion of life and biodiversity there.
What was once pastureland when I was growing up that Black Angus cattle were run on is now a vast cedar forest. The old original growth hardwood forest that had been confined to slopes on the mountain too steep to clear has spread out from it's center in those 35 years and retaken lands until it butted into the cedar forest.
All hail global warming, because it proves that in the end, the wild will win - so long as we can manage to keep the temperatures up in the current range or higher to give life a fighting chance.
1984:
2020:
The brownish-green is cedar forest, and the dark green is hardwood forest.
And, finally, a GIF flashing between the two to show the gains Mother nature has made:
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’